Hi Nick, thanks for the reply.
I have got a 2nd copy (thanks CL team) working on another machine (win7 + Office 07) - all good.

I think the issue is to do with my Parallels XP VM. A few factors that may contribute:
- I installed office 07 after installing CL and importer?
- My .ppt may be too complex (it paused for about 10 secs before importing correctly on the other machine). I made/tried a simple basic ppt, but still nothing.
- I'm impatient.
cheers
Gareth.